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Real Madrid players with an eye on the US Open

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:48:46 +0000

The 2010 edition of the US Open is underway. This means that most of the Spanish players signed by Real Madrid will cheer for Rafael Nadal and watch the US Open live. It is widley known that there is a strong bond between the likes of Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo and Rafa Nadal.

Nadal, the World No.1 in tennis, is an official Real Madrid supporter. Rafa has been spotted numerous times in the Santiago Bernabeu stands. This year he went a step further and traveled thousands of miles to South Africa and celebrated Spain’s 2010 World Cup title.

Spain’s national football team has won it’s only titles each time when Rafael Nadal managed to grab the Wimbledon crown. The Spaniard first won Wimbledon in 2008. A few weeks later Spain won the European Football Championship for the first time in history.

Nadal is now top seed at the 2010 US Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the season. Everyone is wondering what other title Spain could win if Rafa grabs the US Open for the first time in his career? Moreover lots of of people believe that, Rafael Nadal can cement his place among the very best players in history with victory at this year US Open.

Below is the ATP top 20 Men’s singles rankings as at 23rd August 2010:

1. Rafael Nadal (Spa)

2. Roger Federer (Swi)

3. Novak Djokovic (Ser)

4. Andy Murray (GB)

5. Robin Soderling (Swe)

6. Nikolay Davydenko (Rus)

7. Tomas Berdych (Cze)

8. Fernando Verdasco (Spa)

9. Andy Roddick (US)

10. Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg)

11. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra)

12. David Ferrer (Spa)

13. Marin Cilic (Cro)

14. Mikhail Youzhny (Rus)

15. Juergen Melzer (Aut)

16. Nicolas Almagro (Spa)

17. Ivan Ljubicic (Cro)

18. Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp)

19. Gael Monfils (Fra)

20. John Isner (US)

We will come up with Women ranking in our next update of this year US Open, enjoy your match live.

ATP Men’s Tennis Rankings as at February 15, 2010

Lovely — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:38:00 +0000

Below is the official and alternative player rankings for the ATP pro tours and statistics as at February 15, 2010. Roger Federer is still after he won the 16th grand slam tittle.

Rank Players Country Points

1	Roger Federer	0	11350.0
2	Novak Djokovic	0	8310.0
3	Rafael Nadal	1	7370.0
4	Andy Murray	1	7300.0
5	Juan Martin del Potro	0	6355.0
6	Nikolay Davydenko	0	5290.0
7	Andy Roddick	0	4210.0
8	Robin Soderling	0	3855.0
9	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	0	2985.0
10	Marin Cilic	0	2970.0
11	Fernando Verdasco	0	2860.0
12	Fernando Gonzalez	0	2710.0
13	Gael Monfils	0	2430.0
14	Radek Stepanek	0	2240.0
15	Mikhail Youzhny	5	1980.0
16	Gilles Simon	0	1880.0
17	Tommy Robredo	2	1845.0
18	Tommy Haas	1	1830.0
19	David Ferrer	1	1780.0
20	Lleyton Hewitt	1	1770.0
21	Stanislas Wawrinka	0	1765.0
22	Juan Carlos Ferrero	0	1760.0
23	Tomas Berdych	0	1545.0
24	Ivan Ljubicic	0	1430.0
25	John Isner	0	1430.0
26	Nicolas Almagro	0	1370.0
27	Juan Monaco	0	1355.0
28	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1	1305.0
29	Jurgen Melzer	3	1270.0
30	Albert Montanes	0	1265.0
31	Sam Querrey	0	1260.0
32	Thomaz Bellucci	4	1246.0
33	Ivo Karlovic	2	1195.0
34	Feliciano Lopez	1	1195.0
35	V Troicki	1	1135.0
36	Marcos Baghdatis	0	1125.0
37	Janko Tipsarevic	0	1060.0
38	Igor Andreev	3	1040.0
39	Julien Benneteau	1	1004.0
40	Benjamin Becker	0	961.0
41	Jeremy Chardy	1	950.0
42	Paul-Henri Mathieu	3	940.0
43	Andreas Beck	0	930.0
44	Dudi Sela	1	912.0
45	Victor Hanescu	1	905.0
46	Andreas Seppi	0	900.0
47	Guillermo Garcia-Lopez	0	894.0
48	Lukasz Kubot	8	877.0
49	Evgeny Korolev	1	868.0
50	Pablo Cuevas	0	838.0
51	Florian Mayer	12	821.0
52	Horacio Zeballos	3	821.0
53	Marco Chiudinelli	1	816.0
54	Richard Gasquet	1	810.0
55	James Blake	3	800.0
56	Michael Berrer	6	783.0
57	F Fognini	0	780.0
58	Olivier Rochus	3	772.0
59	Florent Serra	1	745.0
60	Simon Greul	4	729.0
61	Marc Gicquel	10	724.0
62	Arnaud Clement	1	724.0
63	Potito Starace	2	707.0
64	Alejandro Falla	2	667.0
65	Stephane Robert	2	666.0
66	Lukas Lacko	2	664.0
67	Jose Acasuso	8	660.0
68	Michael Russell	10	660.0
69	Sergiy Stakhovsky	0	658.0
70	Philipp Petzschner	1	657.0
71	Mardy Fish	13	650.0
72	Peter Luczak	0	649.0
73	Leonardo Mayer	3	647.0
74	Daniel Koellerer	1	647.0
75	Thiemo de Bakker	7	636.0
76	Oscar Hernandez	1	633.0
77	Denis Istomin	19	630.0
78	Taylor Dent	1	623.0
79	Michael Llodra	9	617.0
80	Daniel Gimeno-Traver	1	613.0
81	Eduardo Schwank	7	608.0
82	Rajeev Ram	3	606.0
83	Juan Ignacio Chela	3	605.0
84	Jan Hajek	1	596.0
85	Fabrice Santoro	2	565.0
86	Marcos Daniel	3	565.0
87	Christophe Rochus	2	563.0
88	Illya Marchenko	2	563.0
89	Rainer Schuettler	5	560.0
90	Igor Kunitsyn	0	560.0
91	Paolo Lorenzi	7	557.0
92	Mischa Zverev	0	549.0
93	Maximo Gonzalez	0	548.0
94	Nicolas Massu	5	544.0
95	Nicolas Lapentti	0	540.0
96	Daniel Brands	1	540.0
97	Santiago Giraldo	3	532.0
98	Dmitry Tursunov	7	530.0
99	Ernests Gulbis	1	529.0
100	Robby Ginepri	1	529.0

Favorites to win Australian Open 2010 Grand Slam

Lovely — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:53:15 +0000

The Australian Open 2010 is knocking at the door. The first Grand Slam event of the season is 5 days away. With stars arriving in Melbourne and most of them already appearing on the practice courts the big question is, who will win the Aussie Open?

The Women’s Singles tournament is announced to be more spectacular than ever, having numerous title contenders. Kim Clijsters is maintaining solid form after winning the US Open 2009 and celebrating a perfect comeback to her professional tennis career.

Serena Williams is the defending title holder and is always a strong candidate for the title. She lost the US Open semifinal against Clijsters and she is aiming for revenge, especially now when she looks to defend her World Number 1 spot.

Next on the list seems to be Dinara Safina. The Russian, former World Number 1, has failed to win a Grand Slam event so far. However she seems able to do it and one can never know when she will succeed.

There is also Maria Sharapova. The Russian star returns to the Australian Open. The former 2008 Champion missed to defend her title last year, because of the shoulder injury. Masha holds though a run of 7 wins in a row.

Justine Henin is another ‘fresh’ arrival at the Australian Open 2010. The Belgian star has returned to the tennis world after 1 year and a half of break. She played great in Brisbane last weekend and almost defeated Clijsters for the trophy.

The Men’s Singles tournament, surly the most spectacular tournament of the Australian Open, is also wide open. Rafael Nadal is the title defender. He produced a dream run in 2009, but later knee injuries took a tool on the Spaniard. Nadal seems to have regained his rhythm though just in time for the Aussie Open.

Roger Federer is of course another huge favorite. However, Roger last won a title in 2007, at the Melbourne Park. He just failed last year as Nadal proved himself to powerful for the Swiss Champion. With 2 Grand Slams won in 2009 out of 4, Federer is for many the main favorite.

Andy Murray has never won a Grand Slam event. He definitely showed that he has potential to do it and the 2010 Australian Open might be his wake-up call. Other favorites are 2009 US Open Champion, Juan Martin Del Potro and 2008 Aussie Open Champion, Juan Martin Del Potro. Keep in touch with all the Aussie Open events by watching live tennis online.

Federer and Serena win ITF 2009 world champions

Lovely — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:12:31 +0000

Roger Federer and Serena Williams have been named by International Tennis Federation (ITF) as the 2009 world champions men and women in tennis championship, after both of them end the year ranking as number tennis players. Federer, has won the honour for the 5th time. He won his 15th Grand Slam title at Wimbledon and another Grand Slam at Roland Garros this year.On the other hand Serena Williams won the Australian Open and Wimbledon, her 11th major success. Both of the we receive their awards at the annual ITF world champions dinner in Paris in June.

Federer regained the world number one sport from Rafael Nadal after his Paris victory and his Wimbledon win over Andy Roddick which enable him to surpass Pete Sampras record of highest number of Grand Slam titles. He was runner-up at the Australian Open and the US Open and helped his country retain its Davis Cup world group status. Federe said: “It is an honour for me to be named ITF world champion for a fifth time. It was an incredible year for me both on and off the court. To win my first Roland Garros title, break the all-time Grand Slam record and regain the number one ranking is amazing. It means a lot to me to finish the year again at the top.”

Serena Williams won the award for the first time since 2002. As well as her Grand Slam wins, she won the season-ending WTA Championships in Doha, she gain the number 1 top ranking in the last event of the year. She also won the doubles year award with sister Venus after making their career total to 10 Grand Slam titles in the year. With this award Serena Williams joins Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport as the only players to become singles and doubles world champions in the same year.

Serena fined for verbally abuse of linewomen

Lovely — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:11:54 +0000

Serena Williams was fined a record $82,500 for her tirade at a U.S. Open line judge and could be suspended from that tournament if she has another “major offense” at any Grand Slam in the next two years. The American, 28, verbally abused an official after a foot-fault call which gave Kim Clijsters a match point in their semi-final this year. The world number one will incur the ban if she commits any further “major offence” before the end of 2011. In that case, her fine will also double to £106,000.

After the match in September, Williams was fined £6,000, which has been included in the latest penalty of £53,000. The fine, a quarter of the £212,000 Williams received for reaching the semi-finals, still tops the previous highest Grand Slam fine of £38,000 given to Jeff Tarango in 1995. After the incident, Williams released an initial statement, which did not include a straight apology, but later said she wanted to “sincerely apologise” for her behaviour.

“I need to make it clear to all young people that I handled myself inappropriately. It’s not the way to act – win or lose, good call or bad call in any sport, in any manner, she said”

The International Tennis Federation’s Grand Slam Committee met last week to agree on a punishment. It found her guilty of “the Grand Slam major offence of aggravated behaviour”.

Men’s tennis ranking as at September 14, 2009

Lovely — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:04:33 +0000

According to the lastest tennis ranking after the Grand slam at the US Open, Roger Federer 11240.00 is still the world number one tennis players, following by Rafael Nadal with 8845.0 point and the third layers is Andy Murray with 8395.0 point.

Andy Murray has fallen one place in the world rankings to third after being overtaken by Rafael Nadal following the results at the US Open Grand slam. Murray was beaten by Marin Cilic in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows, while Nadal reached the semi-finals. The Spaniard was knocked out by Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro, who went on to win his first Grand slam.

Nadal regained his world number two spot, behind beaten finalist Roger Federer. Del Potro moved up one place to fifth in the rankings after his victory against Federer. Below is the full table ranking by ATP 2009

Men’s Singles Rankings
RANK	PLAYER	COUNTRY	MOVEMENT	POINTS
1	Roger Federe		0	11240.0
2	Rafael Nadal		1	8845.0
3	Andy Murray		1	8390.0
4	Novak Djokovic		0	7480.0
5	Juan Martin del Potro		1	6825.0
6	Andy Roddick		1	5310.0
7	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga		0	3950.0
8	Nikolay Davydenko		0	3535.0
9	Fernando Verdasco		1	3430.0
10	Gilles Simon		1	3090.0
11	Robin Soderling		1	3015.0
12	Fernando Gonzalez		1	2885.0
13	Gael Monfils		0	2355.0
14	David Nalbandian		0	2225.0
15	Marin Cilic		2	2195.0
16	Tommy Robredo		1	2045.0
17	Radek Stepanek		1	2030.0
18	Tomas Berdych		0	2025.0
19	David Ferrer		0	1785.0
20	Tommy Haas		1	1780.0
21	Juan Carlos Ferrero		4	1670.0
22	Stanislas Wawrinka		2	1555.0
23	Philipp Kohlschreiber		1	1530.0
24	James Blake		1	1460.0
25	Sam Querrey		3	1390.0
26	Lleyton Hewitt		6	1375.0
27	Paul-Henri Mathieu		0	1330.0
28	Victor Hanescu		1	1286.0
29	Dudi Sela		6	1244.0
30	Nicolas Almagro		3	1225.0
31	Ivo Karlovic		3	1220.0
32	V Troicki		1	1215.0
33	Jeremy Chardy		1	1207.0
34	Feliciano Lopez		3	1205.0
35	Philipp Petzschner		4	1172.0
36	Julien Benneteau		7	1159.0
37	Juan Monaco		4	1110.0
38	Dmitry Tursunov		2	1090.0
39	John Isner		16	1084.0
40	Jurgen Melzer		2	1080.0
41	Fabrice Santoro		3	1072.0
42	Benjamin Becker		3	1064.0
43	Igor Andreev		13	1040.0
44	Andreas Beck		4	998.0
45	Igor Kunitsyn		3	992.0
46	Albert Montanes		2	991.0
47	Ivan Ljubicic		4	986.0
48	Richard Gasquet		2	985.0
49	Martin Vassallo Arguello		3	963.0
50	Mischa Zverev		3	930.0
51	Jose Acasuso		4	920.0
52	Mikhail Youzhny		8	915.0
53	Mardy Fish		27	910.0
54	Leonardo Mayer		5	906.0
55	Guillermo Garcia-Lopez		5	899.0
56	Marcos Daniel		1	890.0
57	Daniel Koellerer		5	868.0
58	Janko Tipsarevic		6	855.0
59	Andreas Seppi		10	850.0
60	Pablo Cuevas		7	824.0
61	Marat Safin		3	820.0
62	Jarkko Nieminen		8	819.0
63	Jan Hernych		7	817.0
64	Simone Bolelli		4	816.0
65	Thomaz Bellucci		4	813.0
66	Horacio Zeballos		10	812.0
67	Florent Serra		6	806.0
68	Andrey Golubev		12	777.0
69	Maximo Gonzalez		10	774.0
70	Marc Gicquel		11	765.0
71	Peter Luczak		7	760.0
72	Alberto Martin		21	754.0
73	Ivo Minar		7	750.0
74	Yen-Hsun Lu		3	743.0
75	Robby Ginepri		0	740.0
76	Mario Ancic		6	727.0
77	Oscar Hernandez		6	720.0
78	Marcel Granollers		10	715.0
79	Teimuraz Gabashvili		5	709.0
80	Kristof Vliegen		5	709.0
81	Bjorn Phau		3	704.0
82	Olivier Rochus		8	703.0
83	Simon Greul		18	696.0
84	Paul Capdeville		3	695.0
85	Robert Kendrick		8	692.0
86	Fabio Fognini		13	685.0
87	Christophe Rochus		15	681.0
88	Adrian Mannarino		3	677.0
89	Karol Beck		5	656.0
90	Potito Starace		2	655.0
91	Josselin Quanna		12	651.0
92	Evgeny Korolev		12	642.0
93	Rainer Schuettler		6	635.0
94	Steve Darcis		3	613.0
95	Victor Crivoi		1	600.0
96	Nicolas Massu		7	596.0
97	Wayne Odesnik		11	596.0
98	Michael Russell		14	595.0
99	Denis Istomin		9	592.0
100	Florian Mayer		13	584.0

Rankings provided by the ATP. Last Updated: September 14, 2009.

US Open men’s final Juan Martin ended Federer dream

Lovely — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:39:37 +0000

Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina ended Roger Federer’s five-year unbeaten win at the US Open in five dramatic sets to win his first Grand Slam title. Juan Martin who is 20 year old and seed sixth in the tournament, twice fought back from a set down to win 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-2. Martin is the second man after Rafael Nadal to beat Federer in the final of a Grand Slam tournament.

US open winner Juan Martin Del Potro

Swiss star Federer, 28, had been going for a record-equalling sixth consecutive title at Flushing Meadows, New York. But Federer found Martin, in a Grand Slam final for the first time, in determined mood as he became the second Argentine to win the US opeb title after Guillermo Vilas, who was in the Arthur Ashes Stadium to witness his compatriot’s victory.

“I had two dreams this week, One was to win the US Open and the other one is to be like Roger”, said Del Potro. “One is done, but I need to improve a lot to be like you,” he told Federer, looking at the five-time champion. You fought until the final point. You are a great champion. I’m very happy to be here with this crown, with these people, on this court. This will be in my mind forever.”

Juan Martin del Potro and Roger Federer US open final

Federer said: “I would like to congratulate Juan Martin on an unbelievable tournament. I had a great one but he was the best. I would have never believed I could win five in a row here. It has been an amazing run for me.” He added: “I was two points from the match today. That’s the way it goes sometimes. But I’ve had an unbelievable run this year. Being in all major finals and winning two of those. Sure, I would have loved to win those two as well. But the year has been amazing already. Got married and had kids, don’t know how much more I want.”

Roger Federer had won 40 consecutive matches at Flushing Meadows. He had won 33 of his previous 34 Grand Slam matches. And he has made the final at 17 of the past 18 Grand Slam tournaments, 21 overall. Federer came close this year, to won three straight major tournaments in a season, his French Open, US open and Wimbledon titles, a five-set loss to Nadal in the Australian Open final and the five-set loss to del Potro in the U.S. Open final.

This US Open was Federer’s first Grand Slam event after he wife give bith to a baby girl and he spoke proudly of quickly learning to change diapers, baby sit and getting used to sleepless night of baby. Federe last word is “Right now, I’m just tired, I want to get a rest.”

US Open update – Federer cruise to s/final

Lovely — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:28:10 +0000

The defending champion and world no.1, Roger Federer withstand a super fighting from Robin Soderling to win in four sets and reach the semi-final of the US Open. The world no.1, is going for a sixth straight title at Flushing Meadows, won 6-0, 6-3, 6-7, (6-8), 7-6, (8-6).

Roger Federer will now take on Novak Djokvic in his 22nd consecutive Grand Slam semi at the US open. The fourth seed Novak Djokvic survived a good encounter with Fernando Verdasco to win 7-6, (7-2), 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 and reach his third straight US Open semi-final.

The final match of the day was a thriller, with Roger Federer seemingly on course for a regulation win after playing some supreme tennis for two sets, only to see Soderling battle his way back into contention. Roger Federer had won all 11 of their previous meetings, including straight-set wins in the French Open final and at Wimbledon this year, and he began magnificently.

“This feels great,” Roger Federer said. “It was so close towards the end and it’s just a great relief to come through because Robin just got better and better as the match went on.”

US OPEN 2009 – Day 1

Lovely — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:33:39 +0000

Day 1 at the US Open 2009 presented Roger Federer opening the Men’s Singles action at the Arthur Ashe stadium. The Swiss champion won easily against local youngster David Britton. American’s had several reasons to cheer as John Isner defeated Romanian Victor Hanescu in straight sets.

Women’s Singles action was started by returning star, Kim Clijsters. The former World No.1 won 6-4\6-1 against Viktoriya Kutuzova of Ukraine in the very first match of the US Open 2009 on the Centre court. Victoria Azarenka, seeded 8th, qualified for the 2nd round after a straight sets defeat over Alexandra Dulgheru.

The William’s sisters had different performances. While Serena crushed Alexa Glatch 6-4\6-1, sister Venus played a real marathon against Russian, Vera Dushevina. Venus needed 3 hours to obtain a 3 set win. Dushevina managed to win the 1st set 7-6 but lost 5-7 and 3-6 the following ones.

Andy Roddick completed the day whith a clear win over Bjorn Phau. Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic will enter the tournament today, together with many other top class players. Watch US Open live wherever you are. It’s one of the most spectacular tennis tournaments and you should not miss it. It’s available live online too. Have fun!”

US open 2009 grand slam tennis begins

Lovely — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:48:27 +0000

The US open 2009 – grand slam tennis start today at Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, in the contest include, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Serena Williams, Anne Keothavong, Venus Williams and lot more. Federe and Serena Williams we begin to defend of their titles today as the opening-day match list also had Venus Williams and Andy Roddick at night.

The year’s final Grand Slam tournament commences on the Flushing Meadows, New York with former world number one, Kim Clijsters of Belgium facing Ukraine’s Viktoriya Kutuzova in the first match at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Clijsters is making her first US Open appearance since winning the 2005 women’s title, her only Grand Slam crownin 5 years. She returned to the court earlier this month after a layoff of more than 2 years to start a family life.

Federer, who has won the past five US Open men’s titles and has not lost at the US Open since the fourth round in 2003, begins his quest for six in a row against 18-year-old American, Devin Britton in the second match at rthur Ashe Stadium. “Doesn’t matter who you play, where you play. If you think the guy is not going to make a game that’s absurd. You have to be very careful. I have to make sure I put in a good performance. Federer recalled being shocked at 17 when he faced Andre Agassi in his hometown of Basel, so he can relate to Britton’s situation. You try to enjoy it, put in a good fight, Federer said. “Best-of-five-set match is maybe something Britton has never played before, but a good thing in tennis is you always have a chance.” US fifth seed, Andy Roddick’s advice for Britton was to find ways to help cope with a signature moment on the big stage.“There’s nothing like going out on that court and playing,” Roddick said. Federer will have to battle with Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal who are also lookig forward for the first US open tittle in 5 years.